Cave Creek, Arizona January 6, 2014. The High Density Packaging (HDP) User Group International, headquartered in the United States, announces that Polar Instruments has become its newest member.

Polar Instruments is a provider of signal integrity tools and high-speed test equipment and services. Headquartered in Great Britain, Polar Instruments has a 40+ year history of providing advance design, test, and repair technology to the electronics industry.

Key areas of signal integrity focus for Polar Instruments include:

• A static-hardened test system for measurement of loss in test coupons in a production environment utilizing either the SET2DIL/SET2SEIL technique developed by Intel or IBM’s SPP technique.
• Industry-standard field solvers for lossless transmission lines and frequency dependent solvers for lossy transmission lines.
• Stackup design and documentation software tools that interface seamlessly with field solvers.

Martyn Gaudion, Polar Instruments Chief Executive said “We are very excited to participate in the HDP User Group. We will be active participants in the High Frequency Test Measurement project furthering the scope of the industry interface standard to better enable an open interface architecture between CAD and CAM tools.” Marshall Andrews Executive Director of HDP User Group said, “We are pleased that Polar Instruments, an innovative advanced high speed test and design provider, has joined our consortium. They will be contributing high-speed test and design expertise to several HDP projects including the High Frequency Test project, which is evaluating various test methods that are key to the design of next generation products.”